Danny Luzon

With the Loss of a Master-Signifier: Modernism and Translation in Lamed Shapiro’s American Yiddish Stories

This article explores translational modes of literary representation intwo American Yiddish stories by Lamed Shapiro: “Nuyorkish” (New Yorkish, 1931) and “Oyfn yam” (At sea, 1909). Shapiro narrates in Yiddish events that take place in English, thus shifting much of the thematic “...